Catalogue             Group                                          A side/B side                                                                                Year

Number

GARI 1            Orch DO7 Shirati Jazz            Asi'Nath Atieno/Atieno Par Buore

GARI 2            Orch DO7 Shirati Jazz            Dr. P. Olango/J. Korinda

GARI 3            Kiseru Jazz Band                   Baranaba Gungu/Pati Komiele                                      1978

GARI 4            Kauma Boys                         Wilbord Aoko/Rose Atieno

GARI 5            Kauma Boys                         Rosa Alando/Dr. Ogutu

GARI 6            Orch Les Sega Sega              Akelo To Ahero/Rapar Dorcus Awino

GARI 7            Orch DO7 Shirati Jazz            Ouko Okech/Ouko Rei

GARI 8            Shirati Luo Voice Jazz            Ochieng Willy/Moni Super

GARI 9            Kamwala Lakeside Jazz         Iscah Achieng Lando No.2/Elly Agwa

GARI 10          Orch DO7 Shirati Jazz            Mary Atieno No.2/Odongo Ogwang

GARI 11          Orch DO7 Shirati Jazz            Eliza Atieno/Jane Anyango

GARI 12          Orch DO7 Shirati Jazz            Lucia Achieng/Odemba Bwana

TIM 1             Migori Seco 43                      Jane Akinyi Nyar Korando Pts 1 & 2

A label for well-known and less familiar Luo bands. GARI 3 is an Okoth Kodondi production for Victoria Music Stores of a band who don’t feature anywhere else in this discography. The label is distributed by AIT and details of all other recordings with GARI prefixes come from AIT’s own master catalogue.

Sofiane of Groovy Record in Paris alerted me to the existence of TIM 1 in April 2011. It is hard to tell whether this came before, after or alongside the GARI series. AIT’s own master catalogue, which is not a complete document, contains no records with this prefix.